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A former governorship candidate in
Kogi State and a front line Afenifere member, Prince Rotimi Obadofin is dead.
Obadofin, who hailed from Aiyegunle Gbede, in Ijumu Local Government area of
Kogi State was one time governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress
of Nigeria, ACN, before it merged into the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Obadofin who was said to have died
in Oshogbo, Osun State on Thursday night from ruptured appendix also contested
the governorship ticket of APC in last year’s election but lost the ticket to
late Prince Abubakar Audu.

The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya
Bello has expressed shock over the death of Obadofin, whom he (Bello) described
as a ‘frontline progressive’ who displayed exemplary zeal for the actualization
of civil rule in Nigeria.

Bello in a statement signed by his
Chief Press Secretary, Kingsley Fanwo, described the late Obadofin as a
“Pragmatic democrat, fiery human right defender and a believer in the core
ethos of Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-cultural group that wrestled power from
khakistocrats and returned the nation to representative democracy.”